Adrián A.

Creative Performer & Strategic Visionary Building worlds, influence, and a global creative presence. Not becoming: revealing. Inevitable.

[Miilato @miiilato]

how it feels to be extremely self-aware of what you're doing and yet still keep repeating the same self-destructive patterns

[World Cup Anime @WorldCupAnime]

Wake Up, Ronaldo… This Is Your Last Chance.

[Martin Varsavsky @martinvars]

España tiene dos complejos mal resueltos: se siente inferior a Europa y superior a Hispanoamérica. Los dos son falsos y los dos le hacen daño.

Inferior a Europa, porque olvida que España tiene idioma global, historia, empresas, talento, ciudades extraordinarias y una conexión cultural que ningún burócrata de Bruselas puede fabricar. Superior a Hispanoamérica, porque confunde renta per cápita con civilización y no entiende que buena parte del futuro español también está al otro lado del Atlántico.

España debería mirar menos hacia arriba y más hacia afuera. Su ventaja no es parecerse a Alemania. Es ser el puente natural de 500 millones de hispanohablantes.

[raulk @raulvk]

This is so true, and it only dawned on me recently.

In Spain you’re not encouraged to be intellectually curious, bold in your convictions, nor obsessed with a life mission. It’s quite the opposite: the system pushes you to fit a mold. Curiosity degrades into people gossip, convictions are about football teams, and baseline aspiration is a conventional life arc of education > work > family > kids, etc. Nobody ever dreams of doing something big, at least not seriously. And if you do, you’re the weird one, and you either adapt and stagnate, or leave and pursue stimuli elsewhere.

My first real encounter with SF culture was @protocollabs. At socials, @juanbenet liked to soft-ban small talk and seed big questions to elicit unconventional ideas. I used to think: “man, how intense, I just want to chill after a long day”, but now I wouldn’t have it any other way.

And yeah, I tend to be the odd one out in my Spanish circles nowadays, surprise 😅

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

Pixar hired a chef with three Michelin stars to design the dish in Ratatouille. Then they built the scene around the neuroscience of how taste triggers memory, and got Peter O’Toole to deliver one of the great monologues in animation history.

What you call “taste” is mostly smell. When you eat, molecules rise up the back of your throat into your nose. From there, smell takes a unique route. Every other sense (sight, sound, touch, even the actual taste your tongue picks up) gets filtered through a kind of switchboard in your brain first. Smell skips it. The smell heads straight to the parts of your brain that handle memory and emotion. Which is why one bite of food can drop you back into a moment from 30 years ago.

Ratatouille’s director, Brad Bird, built the entire flashback around this. Anton Ego takes one bite, and Pixar zooms the camera through his pupil into a childhood kitchen. The dish itself was Thomas Keller’s. His restaurant The French Laundry in California has three Michelin stars. He took a 1976 recipe by French chef Michel Guérard called confit byaldi (paper-thin vegetables spiraled over a tomato-pepper sauce) and adapted it for the film. Keller even had Pixar’s producer intern in his kitchen for months to get the look right.

Anton Ego is voiced by Peter O’Toole, the lead in Lawrence of Arabia. He was nominated for Best Actor eight times. Never won. He holds the record (tied with Glenn Close) for most nominations without a win, and once called himself the Academy’s “Biggest Loser.” He was 75 when he recorded the Anton Ego monologue. He died six years later, and it became one of his signature performances.

The speech was Brad Bird’s. In the review he writes the next morning, Anton Ego turns on his own profession. Critics risk almost nothing, he writes. They thrive on tearing strangers apart. The only risk that matters, he writes, is defending new talent when no one else will. He ends with the line everyone still quotes: “a great artist can come from anywhere.”

Ratatouille won Best Animated Feature at the 2008 Oscars, plus a Best Original Screenplay nomination on the strength of Bird’s speech. The film grossed $624 million on a $150 million budget.

In 90 seconds, a cartoon rat and a fictional food critic turn that science into something you can feel. Your best memories live in your stomach.

[Fachar @FACHARTRUMPUTIN]

"El orgullo de no abandonar a nadie".

[Madrid Street Bets @madstreetbets]

@el_pais Que haya turistas adinerados que vengan a España a comprar relojes de 10.000€ y se les devuelvan los impuestos mientras que Paco que ha montado un bar le sangren a impuestos por ser autónomo es distópico en un país que presume de "impuestos solo para ricos".

[frogan @fr0gan]

this is so dystopian and insane

[DiscussingFish @DiscussingFish]

The first full trailer for 'AVENGERS: DOOMSDAY' has been released by Marvel at #CinemaCon.

In Theaters on December 18.

[Don Shelby @DonShelby_]

Señoras y señores, acabamos de presenciar una de las mejores primeras partes del Siglo XXI en la Champions League.

El Fútbol es maravilloso.

[𝙎𝙖𝙦𝙚𝙚𝙯𝙮 @saweezo]

never say never

[United Pride @UtdPride]

After watching this Cesc Fabregas, I started to regret why I ever supported Ruben Amorim.

[Florida Living (JustOh) 🇺🇸 @myacatt51]

Son unos malditos demonios. La historia de esta chica es desgarradora. La sacaron a la fuerza de un hogar en el que estaba su abuela. Luego la pusieron a vivir con delincuentes originarios de países en los que la mujer no vale nada, y 11 de ellos la violaron repetidamente durante varios días. Deprimida, intentó suicidarse tirándose de un quinto piso. Los asquerosos violadores ya están en la calle. A ella la mataron y le sacaron los órganos. ¿En dónde coño está la justicia?

[El Censor @elcensorrevista]

Sordo el que no quiera escuchar

[Adrián A. @picoadriancho]

One of the most challenging and interesting city projects is being pushed aside for “AI farms.”

Or let’s look at it from a different perspective: AI has been chosen instead of humans.

Get used to it. Governments’ favourite selection is going to be AI.

New world loading. 🪙

[Pubity @pubity]

Saudi Arabia has cancelled their plan to build 'The Line', an 170km long residential megastructure in the desert.

They're taking what they've built so far and turning it into an AI server farm instead.

[Adrián A. @picoadriancho]

@RosaliaInfo_ES Arte.

En unos premios británicos, donde la exigencia y la competición para estar ahí es máxima, lleva un año en la palestra con estilos nuevos y una puesta en escena increíble, con el tono del público británico.

Época en que los artistas hispanohablantes están dejando huella.

[Luis @jodienda_ml]

Es el ejemplo más bestia de tema prefabricado e introducido de forma artificial en la agenda informativa que he visto en mi vida.

Simplemente a los medios y las redes les ha dado la gana ir con ello y ya está, sin ningún fundamento, sin ningún background, nada, no hay NADA.